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Illinois State Police Cadet Class 145 participates in classroom training. Only one of the nine cadets in the class is a woman. – Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell

Illinois state police force looks to recruit more women

The night before Rebecca Hooks started at the Illinois State Police Academy in 2002, she spoke on the phone with her father and her brother — both of whom worked in law enforcement.
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Justice Cynthia Cobbs aims to continue 1st District appellate tenure

Justice Cynthia Y. Cobbs said she has the “experience that matters” to continue to successfully serve on the 1st District Appellate Court.
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Freezing cold upsets Chicago’s struggle to house migrants

As temperatures hover below freezing in Chicago, dozens of asylum-seekers are staying in the lower level of a library until the bitter cold gripping much of the country lifts.

Trial Notebook

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Judge seeks help on interference by subsidiary in diversity case

In a diversity case governed by Indiana law, a federal judge in Fort Wayne had to figure out whether a corporate subsidiary can be held liable for tortiously interfering “with the contracts and business relationships of another corporate subsidiary when both subsidiaries are owned by the same corporate parent.”

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